[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Richard B. Gilbert]

JF Mezei wrote:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
> 
>>    We ported many thousand lines of code with a one or two line change.
> 
> 
> While the port to Alpha was not as painful as some african manhood
> ritual, if you went from VAX-C to DEC-C, then it was more than just a
> couple lines of code to change. While the changes were fairly mechanical
> in nature, you still needed to go through it.

I did some porting of VAX C to DEC C.  It was mostly things like adding 
function declarations to make the compiler stop issuing warning 
messages.  In the process I discovered and fixed an actual bug.  ISTR 
that it was a subscript range problem.